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With the Intel Downfall vulnerability made public last week (also known as GDS - "Gather Data Sampling") there can be a sizable hit to AVX workloads making use of the GATHER instructions. For helping to lower the impact of Downfall/GDS on mitigated systems, Intel has made a change to the GNU Compiler Collection to disable GATHER generation in vectorization for Intel CPU families affected by this vulnerability...

The Future Of Open-Source Enterprise Linux And Community Collaboration  Forbes

The Future Of Open-Source Enterprise Linux And Community Collaboration  Forbes

The Linux Foundation Announces Keynote Speakers for WasmCon ...  FOX 28 Spokane

Distrobox Adds Support For ChromeOS - Allowing More Linux Apps To Run On Chromebooks  Phoronix

The Linux Foundation Announces Keynote Speakers for WasmCon ...  PR Newswire

Distrobox as the open-source project allowing easy access to running other distributions/apps via Podman and Docker has merged support for ChromeOS...

Tempest Rising brings back memories of Command & Conquer  GamingOnLinux

RHEL's source code restrictions and OpenELA"s plans to subvert them  ITPro

OpenZFS 2.2 is nearly here, and ZFSBootMenu 2.2 already is  The Register

In addition to Debian promoting RISC-V to an official CPU architecture for the newly in development Debian 13 cycle, another CPU architecture/port change is adding LoongArch "Loong64" as a new Debian Port...

XWayland 23.2 is out as stable today for this X.Org Server code for enjoying X11 window/client support within Wayland compositors. Several new features are implemented for this XWayland 23.2 milestone...

ProtonDB now has filters for PC and Steam Deck reports  GamingOnLinux

Mozilla Firefox has merged Wayland fractional-scale-v1 protocol support for handling fractional scaling with the web browser on the Linux desktop...

Imagination Technologies has posted the fifth iteration of their driver patches for supporting PowerVR Rogue graphics with an open-source Linux kernel Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver that will go along with their Mesa PVR Vulkan driver...

Imagination Tech Posts Updated PowerVR Linux DRM Driver  Phoronix

Firefox Lands Wayland Fractional Scaling Support  Phoronix

What is the Guake top-down terminal in Linux? Everything to help you get started  ZDNet

Baldur's Gate 3 is going to get some big updates  GamingOnLinux

Back in February 2022 Intel announced plans to acquire Tower Semiconductor. However, one and a half years later the deal is now being called off due to failure to obtain regulatory approval...